Previous Festivals: 2007

Steve Lawson and Jim Strouse in Q-&-A after Grace Is Gone

Chocolate, strawberries, projectors at Clark party

WFF's ninth season was by many accounts its strongest yet. The schedule included many feature premieres - world (Anamorph), East Coast (Stay Away... a little closer), New England (Dark Matter, Purple Violets, Day Zero, Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer), and Berkshire (The Good Night, Running Funny, Teeth), not to mention off-season screenings of Rocket Science and God Grew Tired of Us.

Featuring a superb performance by John Cusack, Grace Is Gone wowed the audience at WFF's first-ever Benefit, with the film preceded by a sold-out dinner at Cafe Latino. The Clark Art Institute was packed for the haunting Dark Matter and a Q-&-A with director Chen Shi-Zheng. The Festival teamed up with MASS MoCA on the vampire classic Nosferatu with live original score by the Alloy Orchestra. WFF also hosted provocative seminars with cast, writers, and director of Running Funny and with Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Craig Hatkoff. The Reeve Award went to Validation, Kurt Kuenne's droll musical romance which narrowly edged Paco Farias' Fool Me Once and Kohl Glass' Der Ostwind in the audience balloting.